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by FilterSweep 3492 days ago
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too.

The sarcasm in your post is, funnily enough, the opposite of the truth because they actually have MORE say than people living in coastal cities[0]

Not only that, but as populations in major cities increase, and number of electoral votes stay the same, this effect increases [1]

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_w...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/1...

(Ed: fixed AMP link)

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> The sarcasm in your post is, funnily enough, the opposite of the truth

Isn't that one of the primary mechanisms of sarcasm?

The "direction" Of the sarcasm is the gist of my reply. My perception was that the parent was mocking the coastal people for complaining that other citizens have a voice. I replied that ironically non-coastal state citizens have more of a voice than coastal people (Ed: grammar)